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Staff Resources for Sustainable Education
果冻影院 has the opportunity and responsibility to solve sustainability challenges through teaching and research. Help us provide every student with the opportunity to study sustainability by 2024.
19 November 2022
Extensive work is currently underway to create resources and activities to support聽academic staff across 果冻影院 to develop their practice in聽Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).聽These will consist of a toolkit, workshops, a MOOC, ESD聽Leads,聽curriculum mapping, training and聽more.聽
ESD is defined by聽as:
The process of equipping students with the knowledge and understanding, skills and attributes needed to work and live in a way that safeguards environmental, social and economic wellbeing, in the present and for future generations.鈥�
Here are 5 simple ways you can embed sustainability into your curriculum
1. View 果冻影院's ESD teaching toolkit
This toolkit aims to support staff from all faculties and disciplines to develop educational experiences that empower and enable 果冻影院 students to become leaders and activators in the global transition.
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2. Join 果冻影院's Sustainable聽Education聽Network
The 果冻影院 ESD Steering Group has set聽up a Network for academics working on embedding sustainability into the curriculum, to support each other and to share resources.聽
3. Develop a tailored discipline-related Welcome Induction聽
We have developed a robust welcome induction to enable students to think about environmental and social sustainability topics that relate to their area of study.
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4. Support and encourage Extra-curricular Activities for your students聽
Encourage students to explore opportunities to learn more about sustainability outside the classroom by directing them to the Students' Union's Student Sustainability Hub聽
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5.聽Encourage a Living Lab Project聽
The 果冻影院 Living Lab is the opportunity for students and staff to solve 果冻影院鈥檚 sustainability challenges through research, teaching, dissertations and projects.
&驳迟;听Undertake a Living Lab project.
6. Take 果冻影院's Free Online ESD Course聽
Created by 果冻影院 IOE researchers, and funded by聽Sustainable 果冻影院, this free online short course聽provides educators with an introduction to key ideas and practices related to education, learning and sustainable development, including issues such as climate change.
It runs over 3 weeks. It should take approximately 3 hours per week to complete the activities. It is聽open for enrolment on-demand at any time.
Through online discussions and activities, you can engage with diverse perspectives and practices from around the world and also explore current international policy.
The course is intended for both educators in higher education as well as teachers in schools, so that participants can talk to one another about their practice and share ideas with peers about how education for sustainable development might link across various levels of education. Participants will also have an opportunity to reflect on how their learning from the course can be applied to their practice.
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